Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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More on the NYT Anonymity Project
So I have been dutifully collecting my "because clauses"– the reasons why sources have been given anonymity in the New York Times. It’s been a fun project because it is a good expression of the kind of art I have been interested in making over the last few years– derivative works art— art that uses…
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Vote for TRUT over at Urban Dictionary
So a while ago I coined the word trut in an an article that I wrote for Rudy Van der Lans over at Emigre Magazine in the mid 90s. I think it’s a pretty useful word and is much more sublime than Colbert’s truthiness. Anyway, I logged the word over at Urban Dictionary to try…
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New Netscape Beta is Live
This is good. The new Netscape.com, which is now in beta, is a Digg clone + human editors. See NYT story here for further explanation. Basically this takes the good stuff from Yahoo! News (actual humans deciding what stories run, not mute algorithms Google News-style) minus the rancor of digg (at least until the nasty-community…
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My Subscriptions > Second City Cop
In my second installment of My Subscriptions, what rose to the top of my Bloglines account tonight. Here’s a general look at what this is from my first post: So what I’m going to do is go through day by day, look at the first entry in my list (sorted by most recently updated), and…
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New Wesley Willis Art Site
Here’s a new site about Wesley Willis Art, The Art of Wesley Willis. They have a shit-ton of great images of his work organized by subject matter: The Spot (Dan Ryan), Skylines, Transportation, McDonalds, and misc. It also has a gallery for images of Wesley himself. I’m pretty sure this one was taken at the…